{"id":310,"date":"2007-11-12T21:13:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T21:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2007\/11\/who-am-i.html"},"modified":"2007-11-12T21:13:31","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T21:13:31","slug":"who-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/11\/who-am-i.html","title":{"rendered":"Who am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who am I?&nbsp; It&#8217;s a question that I have tried to answer all of my life.&nbsp; Maybe it is because I didn&#8217;t have a daddy.&nbsp; Or the fact that I was the only black person in my family and no one would explain why.<\/p>\n<p>Who am I?&nbsp; Sometimes it feels like I&#8217;m the only one who doesn&#8217;t know.&nbsp; Others look at me and it seems so obvious to them.&nbsp; Honestly, though, I still trying to figure out what I do and why I do it?&nbsp; Maybe this is on my mind because I just turned 38.&nbsp; Barring an early heart attack or accident, I just passed the half way point of my life&#8230;I feel like I should have an answer to the question&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Who am I?&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know.&nbsp; But I know the One I am called too and called to serve.<\/p>\n<p>Who am I? Why does it matter?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">I AM GOD&#8217;S!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Any definition of myself that does not begin and end with that is inadequate.&nbsp; Perhaps the more important quesiton is, &quot;Who is God?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad heaven is forever&#8230;that one&#8217;s going to take a while!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who am I?&nbsp; It&#8217;s a question that I have tried to answer all of my life.&nbsp; Maybe it is because I didn&#8217;t have a daddy.&nbsp; Or the fact that I was the only black person in my family and no one would explain why. Who am I?&nbsp; Sometimes it feels like I&#8217;m the only one&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who am I? - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/11\/who-am-i.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who am I? - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who am I?&nbsp; It&#8217;s a question that I have tried to answer all of my life.&nbsp; Maybe it is because I didn&#8217;t have a daddy.&nbsp; Or the fact that I was the only black person in my family and no one would explain why. 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